The New York Public Library is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States and the third largest in the world, it is a private, non-governmental, independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing. The library has branches in the boroughs of the Bronx and Staten Island and affiliations with academic and professional libraries in the New York metropolitan area; the city's other two boroughs and Queens, are not served by the New York Public Library system, but rather by their respective borough library systems: the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Public Library. The branch libraries consist of circulating libraries; the New York Public Library has four research libraries, which are open to the general public. The library chartered as The New York Public Library, Astor and Tilden Foundations, was developed in the 19th century, founded from an amalgamation of grass-roots libraries and social libraries of bibliophiles and the wealthy, aided by the philanthropy of the wealthiest Americans of their age.

The library was built on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st Streets, in 1877. Bibliophile and philanthropistJames Lenox donated a vast collection of his Americana, art works and rare books, including the first Gutenberg Bible in the New World. At its inception, the library charged admission and did not permit physical access to any literary items. Former Governor of New York and presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden believed that a library with citywide reach was required, upon his death in 1886, he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune—about $2.4 million —to "establish and maintain a free library and reading room in the city of New York". This money would sit untouched in a trust for several years, until John Bigelow, a New York attorney, Andrew Haswell Green, both trustees of the Tilden fortune, came up with an idea to merge two of the city's largest libraries. Both the Astor and Lenox libraries were struggling financially. Although New York City had numerous libraries in the 19th century all of them were funded and many charged admission or usage fees.

In 1901, Carnegie formally signed a contract with the City of New York to transfer his donation to the city in order to enable it to justify purchasing the land for building the branch libraries. The NYPL Board of trustees hired consultants for the planning, accepted their recommendation that a limited number of architectural firms be hired to build the Carnegie libraries: this would ensure uniformity of appearance and minimize cost; the trustees hired McKim, Mead & White, Carrère and Hastings, Walter Cook to design all the branch libraries. The notable New York author Washington Irving was a close friend of Astor for decades and had helped the philanthropist design the Astor Library. Irving served as President of the library's Board of Trustees from 1848 until his death in 1859, shaping the library's collecting policies with his strong sensibility regarding European intellectual life. Subsequently, the library hired nationally prominent experts to guide its collections policies.

Liars and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy is a 2018 book authored by Jeanine Pirro, an American TV personality, former judge, district attorney and Republicanpolitician in New York. Pirro is the host of Fox News Channel'sJustice with Judge Jeanine. Liars and Liberals is Pirro's fifth book. Published by Center Street and released on July 17, 2018, the 288 page book is listed as non-fiction and is a look inside the Presidency of Donald Trump as well as the politics surrounding the anti-Trump movement; the book's content includes author-conducted interviews with high-ranking administration officials, Trump family members, those considered White House "insiders". Following the book's release, it was listed on the New York Times best-seller list as well as the number one sales slot at Amazon.com. Pirro embarked on a promotion tour for Liars and Liberals in July 2018; the tour comprised book signings as well as interviews, including The View. During her appearance and interview on the July 20, 2018 broadcast of The View and View host Whoopi Goldberg were involved in an on-air exchange characterized by media as a "heated debate" as well as an "explosive fight".

After Pirro jokingly told show host Goldberg that she "suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome", Goldberg responded by saying, "What's horrible is when the president of the United States whips up people to beat the hell out of people". Goldberg telling Pirro "Say goodbye! Bye! I'm done." Appearing on Fox News's commentary show Hannity the following night, Pirro confirmed that she "got thrown off the set, thrown out of the building". Listing and review of Liars and Liberals at Conservative Book Club